Nick Bowler wrote: > while ${MAKE-make} -f conftest.mk >/dev/null 2>&1 > do > touch config.status > done])
I would use 'echo >> config.status' instead of 'touch config.status'. Rationale: When the user is working in an NFS file system mount, and there is a clock skew between the current machine and the NFS server (of, say, N seconds), the "touch" command creates a time stamp on config.status that is off by N seconds from all other files that are regularly written (via open/fopen and close/fclose) into that directory. Since some Makefile rules depend on config.status, it will cause trouble when "make" is run. Bruno